Florida school district considers dress code for slovenly dressed parents

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If kids can’t wear sagging pants to school, should dads be banned from wearing them at pick-up? (Getty)

Most schools have dress codes for students. Short-shorts, mid-riff tops and ripped T-shirts are often on the “do not wear” list.

A Florida school district is considering extending its dress code to parents who are showing up at drop-off and pick-up in pajamas, curlers and pants that fall below their waists to reveal underwear, according to the Florida Sun Sentinel.

Some board members in Fort Lauderdale’s Lauderdale Lakes District feels these slovenly dressed parents are setting poor examples for students and they want something done about it.

Board member Rosalind Osgood told the Sentinel that the principal at Lauderdale Lakes passes out belts to students wearing sagging pants but she says it’s difficult to ask kids to pull up their pants when fathers are showing up at school with pants falling to their knees.

“Parents need to lead by example,” Osgood told the Sentinel.

While Osgood recognizes that a dress code for parents might be a stretch, she hopes the issue of parent’s sloppy fashion can be addressed at a parent meeting.

Not all parents are onboard. A parenting blogger over at the Miami Herald who calls herself Mama Sass feels Florida schools have more important issues to tackle than inappropriately dressed parents and she plans to keep on wearing her pajamas at drop off.

With all the big issues plaguing public schools these days — high poverty rates, language barriers, classroom crowding, guns — there should be bigger concerns than parents in their PJs in school drop-off lines.

Schools have dress codes for students because they spend the entire day there. My fuzzy bunny slippers will not interfere with their learning.

Are my jammie pants lowering your test scores?

What do you think? Should parents be allowed to drop their kids off at school looking as if they just rolled out of bed?

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